When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
GERTRUDE STEINIs it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
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Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.
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This is the place of places and and it is here.
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I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
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I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself.
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If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.
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Nothing has happened today except kindness.
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If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.
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Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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